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What's the most underrated thing about LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,724
High
DISTRICT 1,120 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE·NCES 120105001097
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL
1401 YELLOW JACKET WAY, LEESBURG, FL 34748 · (352) 787-5047 · Lake County
GRADES 09–12HIGH22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,724 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 1% of Florida public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.3:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
822 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 427 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 481 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 446 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 370 | 21% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.5% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.9% | 6.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (33.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,724 | 47.7% | 33.0% |
| SOMERSET COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY PORT SAINT LUCIE | 1,463 | 48.3% | 65.4% |
| ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ROCKLEDGE | 1,579 | 48.2% | 43.4% |
| PALM BAY MAGNET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 1,359 | 51.9% | 35.9% |
| BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL PALM BAY | 2,122 | 47.7% | 45.6% |
| CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 1,543 | 49.2% | 45.6% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #541 of 555 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #502 of 549 ▲ 46 | #6 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #504 of 559 ▲ 20 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,724 | #229 of 830 | #4 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.0:1 | #347 of 575 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #20 of 594 | #1 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.7% | #268 of 630 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.2% | #97 of 246 | #3 of 7 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,724
+313 (+22%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 1,464
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
was 20.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,724 | 75 | 23.0:1 | 48% (822) |
| 2023-24 | 1,774 | 80 | 22.2:1 | 50% (891) |
| 2022-23 | 1,641 | 78 | 21.0:1 | 58% (950) |
| 2020-21 | 1,411 | 70 | 20.2:1 | 51% (715) |
| 2017-18 | 1,496 | 75 | 19.9:1 | 73% (1,089) |
| 2015-16 | 1,582 | 75 | 21.1:1 | 69% (1,099) |
| 2010-11 | 1,680 | 88 | 19.1:1 | 54% (902) |
| 2000-01 | 1,770 | 91 | 19.4:1 | 24% (428) |
| 1990-91 | 1,464 | 81 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL.
About LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school located in LEESBURG, Florida. It has an enrollment of 1,724 students in grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 1,035 students for high schools in Florida.
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL is part of LAKE, where 60 schools serve 47,997 students.
At LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL, White students make up the biggest share, 33%. Other students are 31% Black, 27% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. By comparison, Lake County residents are about 67% White. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school has 75 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 23.0 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. The school reported 48% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Lake County average 38%.
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 1% of Florida public high schools.
A school in Florida with LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 57.3%. LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL scores 33.0%.
Looking at the county, Lake County, median household income comes to about $73,161, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 67 public schools and about 47,997 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, OAK PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles. There are 6 other public schools within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 22%. By 2024-25, the school had 23.0 students per teacher, compared with 20.2 in 2020-21.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
412,924
Census ACS
Median income
$73,161
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
67
47,997 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAKE
- EAST RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,683 students
- LAKE MINNEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,309 students
- SOUTH LAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,137 students
- MINNEOLA CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 1,763 students
- AURELIA M. COLE ACADEMYElementary · 1,500 students
- MT. DORA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,500 students
Other schools in LEESBURG
- LEESBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 843 students
- TREADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 836 students
- CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 737 students
- BEVERLY SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- OAK PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 558 students
- RIMES EARLY LEARNING & LITERACY CENTERElementary · 242 students
Nearby schools
- OAK PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 558
- LEESBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 843
- CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 737
- BEVERLY SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 596
- RIMES EARLY LEARNING & LITERACY CENTER2.2 mi · 242
- FRUITLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 688
Frequently asked questions
About LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOLHow large is LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL?
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,724 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL serve?
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL have?
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL?
At LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 27% Hispanic, 31% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LAKE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.